Fifty Dangerous Things has officially begun here at the Jones house with #23: Break Glass. Sorry to break several of your mason jars, dear mother-in-law, but hey, when you gotta break glass you gotta use…

Today I thought I’d share a few of the books we’ve been reading lately::   :: Matt’s been really excited about Tim Ferris’ The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body, and now has lots of…

Awhile back, we watched a TED video called Five Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do.  The speaker, Gever Tulley, sold us on the merits of giving our children freedom to learn and explore,…

If you didn’t read yesterday’s post, go there first to view the drawings Ashton has been diligently creating.  Today she and Matt, and Cedar too, put them together into a book.  We now have a…

Ashton’s drawings are getting much more detailed lately, and she’s been at it quite a lot over the last couple of weeks.  This stack of drawings will soon be turned into a book and play.…

Ashton brought out an armful of big cardboard boxes along with containers of ribbon, paper, pipe cleaners, glue, and glitter.  She declared that she was going to make and decorate a fairy house.  Ahem… glitter?…

Oh January, oh winter, will you please end soon so we can go outside and play?  The wind here is bitter cold– too much even for us Montanans– so inside we will continue to stay…

I think the green blanket showed up as a gift when Ashton was born, and you can see by the photos below that it has remained an important piece in her life.  We have supported…